Antiphoner

Riesencodex lower pastedown

F-5goe

Wiesbaden, Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain, Hs. 2 (detached lower pastedown)

General Information

Title Antiphoner
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Johannisberg?

Original Condition

Page Height 454 – 460 mm
Page Width 281 – 288 mm
Height of Written Area up to 409 mm
Width of Written Area up to 230 mm
Number of Lines 107 – 108
Ruling drypoint, 3.5-4 mm apart

Current Condition

Dimensions 445 x 297 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

  • Musical Notation

    Twelfth-century Germanic neumes on ~26 four-line staves (though sometimes 5 or even 6); coloured lines indicate C- and F-clefs.

  • Host Volume

    Title Riesencodex
    Date of Origin/Publication 12th century
    Place of Origin/Publication Rupertsberg
    Shelfmark 2
    Remarks

    Fragments probably date to a rebinding done between 1452-1563.